Health in Electoral Area A, qathet · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
For health, Electoral Area A, qathet is ahead of 95% of Canadian towns
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 59%, ahead of the 50% for British Columbia. For Electoral Area A, qathet itself the measure is access, and it lags: 21 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Health gives Electoral Area A, qathet a grade of A.
British Columbia: 50% · Shared with the rest of the North Shore/Coast Garibaldi Health Service Delivery Area: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy
Chronic conditions
12%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
British Columbia: 15%
Smokers
6.5%
daily or occasional, age-standardised
British Columbia: 8.9%
Life expectancy
84.3
at birth, 2022/2024
women 86.3 · men 82.3
Nearest hospital
21 km
residents’ average, straight line
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
What stands out · In brief
What stands out about health in Electoral Area A, qathet
The age-standardised smoking rate around Electoral Area A, qathet is well below the typical town’s; 3.7% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
Life expectancy above the norm
Born around Electoral Area A, qathet, a child can expect 2.8 more years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 22.6 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
A long way to hospital
Distance is Electoral Area A, qathet’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 23 km. Getting care ↓
Less chronic illness
For its ages, the region carries less long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 16% of adults, diabetes for 4%. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Electoral Area A, qathet grades A for health
Each input ranked against Canadian towns of 2,500 or more: the region’s four, the town’s distance to a hospital.
Very good or excellent health (59%)Better than 87% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (12%)Better than almost every Canadian town
Smokers (6.5%)Better than almost every Canadian town
Life expectancy (84.3)Better than almost every Canadian town
Distance to a hospital (21 km)Better than 22% of Canadian towns
The region’s four figures and the town’s distance to a hospital are each ranked against Canadian towns of 2,500 or more, then averaged.
How the grade works
Health is graded as a regional score, labelled as such: very good or excellent self-rated health, chronic conditions (arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure averaged) and smoking from the Canadian Community Health Survey, each age-standardised so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, and life expectancy at birth, all for the health region. The residents’ average distance to a hospital is the one input measured for the town itself, so towns in one region can still differ.
Conditions and habits
High blood pressure for 16% of adults in the region, diabetes for 4%
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
16%
Arthritis
20%
Diabetes
4%
Obese (self-reported)
23%
Mood disorder
15%
Anxiety disorder
12%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
6.5%
Smoke every day
3.7%
Heavy drinking
23%
British Columbia
At 23%, self-reported obesity is near British Columbia’s 25%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (23% against 19%).
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight. The anxiety disorder figure is the 2021/2022 estimate: Statistics Canada found the latest too unreliable to publish here.
The wider area
Life expectancy across the 16 health regions in British Columbia
Regional life expectancy in British Columbia, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
84.3
years at birth, 2022/2024
22.6
more years expected at 65
3rd
longest of 16 regions in British Columbia
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Richmond Health Service Delivery Area86.8
Fraser North Health Service Delivery Area84.4
North Shore/Coast Garibaldi Health Service Delivery Area84.3
Vancouver Health Service Delivery Area83.3
Fraser South Health Service Delivery Area83.2
South Vancouver Island Health Service Delivery Area82.7
Okanagan Health Service Delivery Area81.0
East Kootenay Health Service Delivery Area80.5
Fraser East Health Service Delivery Area80.0
Central Vancouver Island Health Service Delivery Area79.8
Kootenay-Boundary Health Service Delivery Area79.5
North Vancouver Island Health Service Delivery Area79.5
Thompson/Cariboo Health Service Delivery Area78.8
Northwest Health Service Delivery Area77.0
Northeast Health Service Delivery Area76.9
Northern Interior Health Service Delivery Area76.6
Life expectancy in British Columbia runs from 76.6 to 86.8; this region sits 3rd of the 16.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability3.5
Economic dependency5.0
Ethno-cultural composition1.5
Situational vulnerability3.0
The index is context and never graded: it describes Electoral Area A, qathet’s own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Getting care
The nearest hospital is 21 km from the average home in Electoral Area A, qathet
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Electoral Area A, qathet’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
21 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
36 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
23 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
0%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
From Electoral Area A, qathet that is further than the 4.4 km of the typical town in British Columbia, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
Deprivation predicts more: the region falls 1.4 years short of the trend
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Electoral Area A, qathet’s dot is marked, under the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Deprivation accounts for much of the spread between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), but not for all of Electoral Area A, qathet’s region’s: 84.3 years where the line expects 85.7 at 1.7. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it outlives the majority, 6 of 10; their median is 83.5 years.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, 2022/2024, by health region. Deprivation: Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation 2021 (situational vulnerability), averaged over each region’s towns by their residents; income: 2021 Census median household income, averaged the same way. The averages and the line are TownRatings calculations.
Health survey
Self-rated health beats British Columbia: 59% very good or excellent, against 50%
How adults in the health region answered the survey, not adjusted for age; the tick marks the province.
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Health very good or excellent
59%
Health fair or poor
14%
Mental health very good or excellent
55%
Mental health fair or poor
16%
Most days quite a bit stressful
22%
Strong sense of belonging
69%
Satisfied with life
85%
British Columbia
On mental health the region is ahead of British Columbia, 55% very good or excellent to 49%; 22% describe most days as quite a bit stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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What counts as a hospital. Facility locations come from Statistics Canada’s open database; records without coordinates sit at their postal code, and not every hospital has an emergency room.
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Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Electoral Area A, qathet shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
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Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
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Who the survey asks. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
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Distances are straight lines. Each small census area is measured as the crow flies to the nearest facility and weighted by its 2021 residents, so real trips run longer.
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Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
Questions about health in Electoral Area A, qathet
How far is Electoral Area A, qathet from a hospital?
Residents of Electoral Area A, qathet have a clinic 36 km away on average and a pharmacy 23 km away, in straight lines.
How healthy is Electoral Area A, qathet?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s. Chronic conditions there average 12% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Electoral Area A, qathet?
There is no figure for Electoral Area A, qathet alone; its health region’s is 86.3 for women and 82.3 for men in 2022/2024.
How is Electoral Area A, qathet’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Electoral Area A, qathet’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
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